Shell has signalled the end of the road for the Curlew floating production, storage and offloading vessel after more than 20 years of operations in the UK central North Sea.
Shell submitted draft plans this week to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to decommission the Curlew FPSO, which was first deployed in 1997.
In the documents, Shell said that the Curlew fields are expected to reach their “economic limit” in the first quarter of next year and there are “no further developments or third-party tie-back opportunities that could extend the field’s life”.
